Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fabrifago/Archive

Report date August 25 2009, 02:36 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Cybercobra

Background on Fabrifago: He started User:Fabrifago/Shvoong in his userspace, and then copy-paste moved it to Shvoong. When Shvoong was prodded, he deprodded it without any edit summary. Fabrifago requested hangon for a speedy deletion of Shvoong. He voted Keep in Articles_for_deletion/Shvoong. His contributions have been entirely Shvoong-related.

Elwikiseñor: His contribs have been entirely to Shvoong, Talk:Shvoong, his userpage, and Articles for deletion/Shvoong, where he voted Keep with Fabrifago. He twice removed the speedy deletion tag on Shvoong  without any edit summary, suspiciously like Fabrifago's deprod.

201.195.12.106: Initially signed as Fabrifago in the AfD vote. In the same edit where Fabrifago voted, he removed his signature from 201's vote. 201's contribs are primarily to Shvoong and its competitor HubPages.

80.179.37.179: The case is significantly weaker here, but 80's contribs to Shvoong make them another possible sock.

Report submitted by --Cyber cobra (talk) 02:36, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Accused users have now been notified. --Cyber cobra (talk) 02:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

you can clear these unfounded suspicions in one second- check the relevant IPs. you can see that we are continents apart
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

for CU attention. I have a strong feeling that 201.195.12.106 is an open proxy or similar. A check on the other registered account would also help, while we're at it, even though I'd be willing to claim WP:DUCK that they are the same user. MuZemike 07:33, 25 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ = . 201.195.12.106 blocked as an open proxy (thanks to Nixeagle for running Nmap). Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 13:54, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Elwikiseñor indeffed and tagged, master warned. —  Jake   Wartenberg  14:48, 25 August 2009 (UTC)